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The Paycheck Fairness Act may not have succeeded this time around, but that isn't stopping the movement to ensure women get fair pay and fair treatment. Advocates applaud those pushing forward to eliminate the gender pay gap.

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When it comes to female sports, every competitive team, including cheerleading, should be respected and rallied around, according to this blog post that highlights the Rally for Girls' Sports Day! The event had bloggers and social-network users celebrating the benefits of girls participating in athletics.

Stronger voices need to be heard in the battle of advancing females in the workplace, and on the legislative front, given some recent political changes on issues relating to gender and female equality, according to the Women's Media Center.

The United States should sign on in support of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, writes Pace Law School professor Darren Rosenblum. "Apart from the issue of gender equality, U.S. ratification of CEDAW is essential to U.S. political power. Although CEDAW is but one treaty, it is increasingly shameful for the United States to stand in the community of nations without having ratified it. ... The United States would gain a strategic legitimacy and benefit from ratifying CEDAW," he writes.

Broadvox has signed an extended partnership agreement with Covad Communications' wholesale-business unit allowing the company access to Covad's IP backhaul and Ethernet services. The added capacity will enable Broadvox to provide business customers scalable networking options with speeds up to 1 Gbps, the company says.

In her directing debut, activist and actor Angelina Jolie is facing more than the typical movie-making challenges as the script, a love story between a Bosnian Muslim female and a Serbian man, is under fire and filming in Sarajevo has been an arduous process. One industry watcher acknowledges that it is good news that another female has moved into the directing ranks.